WG587 Review

This fully professional seven string features a maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, a fixed bridge for absolute tuning stability, and a humbucker-humbucker pickup configuration that creates a wide range of tone. The alder body is lightweight but solid, so it can take plenty of abuse as it goes back and forth to the lesson room to the garage. The fingerboard is made of rosewood and the neck is maple.

Features:	9
Sound:	8
Action:	9.5
Reliability:	10
Impression:	9.5
Overall rating:	9.2
Users rating:	9.1
Comments:	11

overall: 8.6

Featured review by: MESAexplorer, on august 09, 2006

Price paid: $ 180

Purchased from: Music123.com

Features: Finally a 7 string guitar in your price range, that's what I thought. And picked this guitar up for $180. The guitar has Washburn pro on the plate covering the bolts on the back of the body, but it has made in china on the back of the neck. It is a very low priced 7 string, most likely alder or basswood becasue it's a cheap guitar. 24 med. jumbo frets on a bolt on neck. 2 hot humbuckers, not the best sounding when clean but damn good when dirty. 7 Grover tuners and a HardTail bridge, volume and tone knob, 3 way pickup selector. I got it in metallic grey, the finish was overall good, there were a few places in the lower and upper horns where it was a little bit rough but no big deal. It's meant to be played not looked at. It doesnt't have a locking tremolo so. // 8

Sound: I play a lot of prog, thrash, heavy metal, shred, everything really on this guitar. It usually gives me a desired tone whenever I play with it and it meets my needs. I use it with a Mesa Boogie F-100, Fender Twin Reverb, and have used it on a Peavey XXX, and Crate FXT-65, this guitar had a good clean sound until I replaced the bridge pickup with an Invader, now the bridge sounds thin but the neck has an entremely full sound. It has quite a lot of feedback, that's my biggest grip with this amp, but with a noise supressor I have no problems with it. If it had Ibanez on the headstock this guitar could be sold for $300. // 7

Action, Fit & Finish: Out of the box this guitar had very crappy strings, I replaced them and cleaned all the waxy coating off of this guitar. After I put the new strings on and had to raise the action because I use a very heavy set. I raised the pickups as much as possible before they touch the strings to get the highest output possible. The paint was very nice, a few rough spots, no bigger than this circle O so and I don't find that a big deal at all. The 17-24 frets aren't very smooth, I can still bend on them but there is just a gritty feel to it. Everything on this guitar is good quality, the nut, excellent tuners (I love Grover), and the guitar as a whole is definatly worth the money, but I really want something with a locking trem. // 9

Reliability & Durability: I've played with this guitar live probably 20+ times, I only had trouble with it once and that was when the input jack came loose. I tightened it up and put a little super glue on it and it's been fine since. The strap buttons are very solid, but it being an RG shaped guitar you can't really put straplocks on the upper horn due to the placement of the button and the length of the screws. After I installed the Seymour Duncan invador the 3 way selector does cut out my signal if I jiggle it but that's my problem not washburns. It's a very well built guitar despite the low price. // 10

Impression: I play everything but jazz and country with this guitar. I'd play those if I had the knowlege in those genres. The only thing this guitar is lacking IMO is a locking trem. This guitar give me the tone I want when paired up with any half decent amp. The low price of this guitar is amazing, the pics of it on the site didn't do justice, I would have bought a red one if I knew it didn't look Pink as it does on music123. If this guitar was stolen, I'd be very upset until I finished saving up for a UV-777 or Ibanez 1527. At the time I bought this guitar I was comparing it to the Agile 7 string, Ibanez's $350 7 string sorry I don't know the exact name. I chose this one because of the low price and haven't regretted it at all. Overall this is a great guitar for the price, just make sure you are sure you don't mind a guitar without a trem. // 9

Reviewed by: unregistered, on june 07, 2007

Price paid: $ 200

Purchased from: music123

Features: I don’t know what year it was made, I really don’t care. For 200 dollars you can't complain. The sustain on it last for awhile with the stock pick ups. I liked them so much I didn’t change them. Besides the neck, I don’t see much difference between this and the Ibanez 7 string. Stays in tune, sounds great, feels great, what more can you ask for (besides a trem). But I don’t like trems, to much work. This is perfect for metal. // 10

Sound: I use this on a crappy Marshall 15 watt practice amp with a DigiTech Death Metal pedal and still sounds great. When I use this on my Vox AD30 it sounds amazing. The harmonics on it are fine, better then normal. If you don’t think it sounds that great, maybe it's the player instead of the guitar. // 9

Action, Fit & Finish: Its sexy. I got it in black. The picture on Music123 was sort of faded and looked gray, so I didn’t expect this guitar to look this nice. I play it maybe 4 to 5 times a day for a hour or two. And it's still in perfect condition. No loose screws, jacks, etc. Just a amazing guitar. // 10

Reliability & Durability: The strap buttons are too small. My old strap kept slipping off and causing the guitar to drop. So I got strap locks. Problem fixed. I can depend on it in a gig. I highly ever doubt the finish will wear off. It's a tuff, reliable guitar. It's just kind of heavey, but that's because it's solid. // 10

Impression: I play metal mostly and obviously this guitar is meant for metal. I compared it with lots of other guitars, I like to search around before I buy something. It was either this or the Ibanez 400 dollar 7 string. I played both, not much of a difference. So I saved my money and got this. I don’t regret it. If this was stolen, I'd buy it again in a heartbeat. I don’t really hate anything about it at all. It's solid made. In fact, I think I might buy another one in red. All in all this guitar is amazing for the price and a must have for any metal head. It's 200 dollars, what do you have to loose? // 10

Comments

[Satan Lover]

its a badd ass 7 string and numnuts invaders are 4 six strings i will put emgs on mine

[Maniacchris]

Sweet. This guitar is so cheap. Once I just took it and sodomized a nun because it played so shitty.

Then it was actually covered in shit.
It was great.

So I sold it to a traveling circus.

=]

[MESAexplorer]

Satan Lover wrote:

its a badd ass 7 string and numnuts invaders are 4 six strings i will put emgs on mine

I dunno what your problem is, i took time out of my day to write a review, and you have to be a douchebag. Seymour duncan sells 7 string invadors, which are supposedly high quality high gain pickups, well i dont really like mine, it has no bass.

[MESAexplorer]

Satan Lover wrote:

its a badd ass 7 string and numnuts invaders are 4 six strings i will put emgs on mine

i take time out of my day to make a review and you have to be a douchebag. It was suggested to me on this site to try out seymour duncan invaders(the 7 string version) for that guitar, and i find they sound thin and bright. Not my cup of tea.

[bullseyestrat]

Nice review. I have the same guitar. The only difference is that I switched my pickups out for Dimarzio Blaze pickups. It gives it a cleaner driven tone for the bridge and a nice shred lead tone for the neck. You might be having the problem with the invader because the pickups don't match that well. I'm not sure on the output of the washburn pickups, but the invader is a very high output pickup mainly used to heavy distortion. Your guitar will most likely sound better if you switch both of them out for good matching pickups.

[Dannychords]

I played that at samash, pretty good like you said nice tone, but i'll stick to my ESP H-207 =P

[MESAexplorer]

Dannychords wrote:

I played that at samash, pretty good like you said nice tone, but i'll stick to my ESP H-207 =P

Yeah, this is the bottom of the line 7 string...but, nevertheless it still kicks ass

[Anders88]

oi. i was just checking out music123.com and it says its $180 alright, but it says the list price on this thing is $949.80...is that true coz if so im buying. that $770 cheaper!

[MESAexplorer]

haha, they'll say anything to sell a guitar. At first i believe they were saying it was some outrageous price but it has been about $180 for over a year now.

[synpet713192]

i got this guitar for 150 at sam ash... but that's only because it was used. I guess i'm lucky because it was still in perfect condition... I love this guitar.... i may have spent as much as 275 on it, too... if it was stolen, i'd buy it again... so worth it

[ironwolg]

mine's pretty beat up but i got it used so idk what kinda hell the previous owner put it through lol. mine has some kind of seymour duncan pickup in it(maybe the kind you guys are talking about?) and it sounds great but i'm changing it out anyway for the Dimarzio Crunch Lab 7. if i can save up the money i'm gonna put a trem on it but idk what kind just yet. it's a very good guitar, the neck is pretty thin, very good for shredding. it's just missing the floyd rose if you ask me. anyone else think it looks like Rusty Cooley's new guitar a little?